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...absent outside interference. Brooke points to a similar, and ineffective, halt to government land sales in 1998 as evidence that the new policy is misguided. Indeed, past attempts to micro-manage the market seem to have done more harm than good. In 1997, Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa embarked on a 10-year plan designed to increase home ownership in Hong Kong. But the subsidized housing scheme ran straight into the teeth of an economic recession, causing home prices to fall more steeply...
...long ago, a newspaper quoted you as describing Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa and other leaders as "toadying." Is that how you feel? I told the reporter that I'm very unhappy. I said there are people who are doing stupid things to please Beijing, and maybe Beijing never told them to do such things. I'm not blaming Beijing, I'm not blaming Mr. Tung, I'm blaming these people...
...system to which Britain was a willing party in the end, despite the brief flowering of democracy under the last governor, Chris Patten. It has already shown its muscle by referring a decision by the top court to Beijing for "interpretation" when Hong Kong judges came down against it. Tung has installed a "ministerial system" of appointees in place of the civil service?they are said to be more accountable, but that seems to involve no more than being accountable to the Chief Executive and to his masters in Beijing...
...administration in Hong Kong points out, in its defense, that Falun Gong and the Hong Kong Democrats are not so classified. But that misses the point. What the Tung administration is doing is handing to Beijing the power to decide who shall do what in Hong Kong. This makes a mockery of the autonomy pledged five years ago. The snag for those who care about this is that the ill is being done?on the surface at least?by Hong Kong people themselves, who, in another of the stock phrases of 1997, would rule Hong Kong free from the shackles...
...China and Tung Chee-hwa have kept meticulously to the letter of the agreements between London and Beijing. With a system that permits no effective opposition, why should they do otherwise? Are Washington and London, united with China in the fight on terror, going to nitpick over Article...